The Office of Inspector
General (OIG) has provided a report on the Most Serious Management and
Performance Challenges Facing the Small Business Administration (SBA) in Fiscal
Year (FY) 2020. The goal for OIG is to focus attention on significant issues
with the objective of working with Agency managers to enhance the effectiveness
of the SBA programs and operations.
SBA’s recent attempt to implement an IT system, certify.SBA.gov, is meant to be
a more comprehensive approach to service delivery and broader in scope than
just the 8(a) program. It includes the WOSB, HUBZone, and mentor-protégé
programs. Though, in the last Fiscal Year SBA has not made progress in
enhancing the functionality of certify.SBA.gov for the 8(a) program. In
FY 2019 SBA went with only using certify.SBA.gov as the certification
management system and plans to develop a separate system to monitor 8(a)
participants’ business development outside of certify.SBA.gov.
View the full OIG report HERE
